Full Report for Listed Buildings


The list description is not intended to be a complete inventory of what is listed: it is principally intended to aid identification. By law, the definition of a listed building includes the entire building (i) and any structure or object that is fixed to the said building and ancillary to it and (ii) any other structure or object that forms part of the land and has done so since before 1 July 1948, and was within the curtilage of the building, and ancillary to it, on the date on which said building was first included in the list, or on 1 January 1969, whichever was later.

Summary Description


Reference Number
10625
Building Number
 
Grade
II  
Status
Designated  
Date of Designation
13/01/1993  
Date of Amendment
13/01/1993  
Name of Property
Capel Pantdefaid  
Address
 

Location


Unitary Authority
Ceredigion  
Community
Llandysul  
Town
 
Locality
Prengwyn  
Easting
242504  
Northing
244201  
Street Side
 
Location
Situated on crossroads at centre of Prengwyn.  

Description


Broad Class
Religious, Ritual and Funerary  
Period
 

History
1836 remodelled 1898.  

Exterior
Unitarian chapel in painted stucco with hipped slate roof, near square plan with 3-window sides, 2-window end; facade with matching long outer windows, 2 shorter centre windows with date plaque between and broad doorway below. All windows are arched with 2-light timber tracery and roundels in heads. Stucco impost band, heads to side windows and full surrounds to facade windows. Upper windows break through band and have shoulders to surrounds. Door has pilastered surround with moulded arch. Double doors and crescent overlight with roundel. All detail of 1898. Churchyard has fine collection of well-lettered slate headstones.  

Interior
Interior: has 1898 fittings, pine pews, balustraded curved set fawr, pulpit with 2 panels of blank Gothic arcading, balustrade each side and to stairs flanking. End wall gallery on 2 florid iron columns, front with delicate pierced cast-iron panels. Behind pulpit, marble plaque in arched surround and 2 stained glass windows, one of St Paul made by John Hall and Sons of Bristol & London. Panelled boarded ceiling.  

Reason for designation
Listed as a good example of a late C19 chapel interior.  

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